Ibadan, Nigeria (PANA) - Scientists from 30 countries are gathered at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, South West Nigeria, brainstorming on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations.
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are rolling out a new roadmap seeking to enhance transparency in the management of land and forestry resources in 12 African countries around Africa, PANA reported on Thursday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday said a partnership with the Italian gourmet food store, Eataly, will soon see cactus pear marmalade jam from Ethiopia on Italian store shelves.
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A plan to curb clashes between pastoralists and crop farmers over land has been launched in Niger, targeting nine other African countries, as part of an effort to boost agriculture.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new and easy-to-assemble fish drying technology pioneered by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping to reduce health hazards, improve food safety and quality, improve working conditions and cut down food losses in West African fishing villages, the UN agency said Tuesday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Ministers of Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member States gathered in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, on Monday have vowed to strengthen measures that would contribute to enhance resilience of livelihoods and production systems to climate change and other related risk.
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Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) – The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) has said that the two-day Antananarivo conference on food security that ended on Friday night opened a new dynamism for Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean countries by establishing a complete inventory of food and nutritional security projects led by the big island.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mr. Jose Graziano da Silva on Friday said the model of agricultural production that predominates today is not suitable for the new food security challenges of the 21st century and the need to be more sustainable, inclusive and resilient
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Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) – Malagasy President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on Thursday opened a two-day Indian Ocean Food Security Sponsors Conference in Antananarivo suggesting a “win-win partnership” centered on increased production as the answer to the nutritional challenge facing island nations in the region.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A food assessment team said there is a continued improvement in food security in the Sudan in general but the situation is acute in conflict zones in the country, a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Three Rwandan female scientists are among the 70 winners from 11 countries across Africa, selected for the 2015 international fellowship endowed by the Kenya-based African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) for Field Research and Application, the research institute said in a statement obtained here Tuesday by PANA.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for support to the tune of US$116 million in order to assist more than 54 million people faced with starvation as a result of violence and insecurity, mostly in the Sahel region.
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New York, US (PANA) - The World Bank has provided US$15 million in emergency financing for farmers in the three countries worst affected by Ebola to support them during the new planting season, a UN statement said on Thursday.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has chosen the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) as a designated reference centre to expand its access to state-of the-art technology in combating dangerous viral infections, including avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease, in farm animals and wildlife.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday warned that South Sudan is on the brink of a major food insecurity crisis as millions of people remain trapped by the country’s ongoing fighting.
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Rome, Italy ([PANA) - The current Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Mr. José Graziano da Silva, will be the sole candidate in the forthcoming election for the agency's top leadership post.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The network of lakes, rivers and streams that provide fish and freshwater to millions across the world, needs to be better managed in order to safeguard their contribution to healthy diets and economies, particularly in developing countries.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Targeted investments in Tanzanian agriculture contributed to increasing yields for crops such as paddy, maize, or tomato in a range of 60 to 120 per cent in those areas where irrigation and extension activities were carried out at a substantial level.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Wednesday it is working closely with Malawi’s government on a US$16 million response plan aimed at protecting farmers from severe flooding that has destroyed fields and homes, washed away animals and crops, and threatens local food security in the southern Africa country.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Niger on Tuesday signed two agreements totalling US$61 million to ensure food security in Niger and to strengthen the resilience of the vulnerable population, the Bank said in a statement made available to PANA.
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New York, US (PANA) - Agriculture and food security must be treated as essential components of peace building and conflict resolution, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mr. Jose Graziano da Silva said on Monday.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - In Madagascar, the battle against an ongoing plague of locusts risks being lost as funds needed to tame widespread infestations of the crop-hungry insects are running out, posing a serious food security challenge for 13 million people.
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Genetic resources have a critical role to play in feeding the world — especially as climate change advances faster than expected — and much more needs to be done to study, preserve and utilize the biological diversity that underpins world food production, according to a new book released by FAO on Monday.
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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The country representative of the International Centre for Fertilizer Development (IFDC) in Senegal, Susan Van Keulen-Cantella, on Wednesday said that the development and improvement of the value chains of production of agricultural produce in Africa must go through an intensified and sustainable production of food crops.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The monthly Food Price Index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) declined in December after three months of stability, the Rome-based UN agency said in a dispatch from here Thursday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – As part of efforts to create awareness on the Cassava Weed Management project, a Facebook and Twitter accounts have been launched, according to a statement made available to PANA Wednesday by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), based in Ibadan, South West Nigeria.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As South Sudan’s livestock owners flee the country’s conflict, a “silent emergency” has emerged threatening the very fabric of society and further undermining social stability, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Wednesday as it announced a scale-up in its livestock interventions in the embattled nation.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - As South Sudan's livestock owners have fled the ongoing conflict, millions of animals have been displaced, leading to fresh outbreaks of disease and rising tensions between pastoral groups and farmers, as well as within different pastoralist communities, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Lagos , Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Africa Regional Office has developed three Regional Initiatives (RI) aimed at speeding up efforts against food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa, with four countries including Angola, as pilot countries.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and its partners have said a global effort is needed to prevent the rapid spread of the deadly Fusarium wilt disease in bananas, which poses a severe threat to economic welfare and food security in developing countries.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 2nd Pan African Workshop convened to review progress made on the implementation of Codex Alimentarius standards-internationally agreed upon food standards, to improve the safety and quality of the food consumed in Africa, is underway in Kampala, Uganda.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have said the Ebola epidemic in the affected West African countries could push the number of people facing food insecurity to more than one million by next spring.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of people facing food insecurity due to the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could top one million by March 2015 unless access to food is drastically improved, UN agencies warned Wednesday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) –The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in partnership with the Angolan Government and other development partners, have launched a manual on urban and peri-urban horticulture, known as ‘‘Family Micro-gardens’.
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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The World Bank has granted Cameroon a loan of US$ 100 million (about FCFA 50 billion) to enable the Central African country to finance its project on investment and development of agricultural markets (PIDMA), according to an agreement signed by both parties.
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Marrakesh, Morocco (PANA) - "South-South cooperation between countries is increasingly important to meeting the sustainable development challenges of our time," said the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, at the first International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, last weekend.
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Chimoio, Mozambique (PANA) - African countries lagging behind on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) still can work hard to achieve some key targets by the 2015 deadline, according to US Ambassador David Lane who is in charge of his government's interventions for UN agencies responsible for food and agriculture.
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Chimoio, Mozambique (PANA) - A UN official has bemoaned food security challenges in Africa saying that countries on the continent are still struggling to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable people.
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana government has obtained a 95 million-dollar funding to support all sectors of agriculture, fisheries and acquaculture to reduce food import bills, President John Dramani Mahama said on Friday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) has announced a grant of US$1.5 million in support of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) recently launched Regional Response Programmes to tackle food security and agriculture issues related to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa.
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